Glass beads and the prehistoric Liburnians

Sa？etak Glass jewelry in the Liburnian Iron Age culture is poorly represented, in particular in comparison to amber jewelry. Annular glass beads were found in grave No. 1 from Nin, dated to the 8th century BC. In 1981 an interesting bichrome glass bead with a decorative zig-zag motif was published and it was associated culturally with the finds of the Iapodic glass jewelry. A bead in the same style, with an ornament executed with a yellow glass thread on dark background was found in Gornji grad in Zagreb in the rescue excavations in the 1990s. A similar bead was recovered from a grave in the tumulus in Budinjak (？umberak). This type of yellow ornamented glass beads was called Kompolje type implying among other things its staring point in the area of Lika-Iapodia. Beads with layered polychrome eyes appear only in the final phases of the Liburnian Iron Age (4th-1st century BC). Recently published catalogue of graves from Dragi？i？1 presented a diverse repertory of glass beads previously unknown in the Liburnian attire of the time